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How The Pathless Path Makes Money
Online community and resources for unconventional career paths
How did The Pathless Path monetize?
Summary of the sourced claims below
The Pathless Path monetized primarily through book sales, including a bestselling book available in premium editions and signed bundles. Additional revenue came from consulting services, workshops, and freelancing projects. The business also generated income from online courses based on consulting skills and training programs. Podcast sponsorships contributed some revenue, although initially the podcast broke even.
Revenue sources
6 sources · grouped by how The Pathless Path makes money
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Physical products
· 8 mentions · 8 sources“And the cool thing with that is if I inspire people to write a book, that's amazing, right? If the money will inspire them, that's so cool because making a money from a book is pretty amazing. Like other stuff can get super scammy. Like people can hack together a course and put together something...”
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“Pathless Path Premium Hardcover - First Edition Buy One, Gift One Tier $185.00 Pathless The Pathless Path Premium Hardcover by Paul Millerd is a deluxe, hand-signed edition of the bestselling book The Pathless Path, created for readers rethinking work, ambition, and success.”
high“I have my book, I'm leaning into my podcast. My podcast didn't really make money until this year.”
high“It turns out people like the book. I did not expect that. You just crossed 20,000 sales. Yeah. It's crazy. It's amazing.”
high“You published a book called The Pathless Path, which I have right here. Last I heard, you've sold over 40,000 copies of this book, which I know puts it in the top 1% of books sold, possibly in the top 0.1% of books sold. It's an absurdly high number for books sold. People don't really know this, ...”
high“In the first year, I made about $50,000 from my book. I sold about 10,000 copies, about $5 a book. Second year so far, the first five months, I've sold about 15,000 copies of my book, and that's been about $75,000 in royalty, which is pretty wild.”
high“Paul Miller. He's a writer, speaker, author of The Pathless Path, which we're going to talk a lot about, where he explores alternative approaches to work fulfillment outside of the traditional career path.”
high“The best-selling book is now reimagined in a high-end, premium clothbound edition with custom illustrations, a new introduction, and more. Signed Launch Bundle — $95 Amazon — $95”
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Course / training sales
· 4 mentions · 4 sources“I did a training program for a consulting firm in Boston. And I was like, Ooh, I could turn this into an online course. And that is slowly built and evolved. And I do workshops now with companies.”
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“I'm doing like I'm running strategy you which is like a course teaching consulting skills.”
high“And my consulting skills course, I got it to a point where like, I feel great about it...And I was doing work from that, that paid well.”
medium“Then it was taking some of the experiences from freelancing and turning that into a course.”
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Services & consulting
· 3 mentions · 3 sources“Yeah, I larped as a freelance consultant for the first seven months. And like, I took that seriously because I knew I needed to make money. And I did a bunch of projects that were actually really fun. And they showed me, OK, at minimum, I can make money as a freelancer.”
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“I do workshops now with companies. And that made most of my money for the first from years like two to five when I started moving away from just like project based consulting.”
high“Early on, it was freelancing ... I've always had this weird balance of like Strategy U and doing some coaching and freelancing as needed, but I keep that minimal.”
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One-time / lifetime deals
· 2 mentions · 2 sources“And the crazy thing is like how successful the book has been. If you had asked me like what success have been, I would have been I don't know, maybe like 500 copies. And like by the end of all of 2022, I probably sold like 9300 copies, which is just like so crazy.”
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“he even wrote a book called The Pathless Path that sold over 20,000 copies.”
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Sponsorships & partnerships
· 2 mentions · 2 sources“I'm doing the podcast. I have some sponsors around that and so like that's sort of taking over.”
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“I broke even on my podcast. I did, I've done some sponsors here and there”
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Advertising revenue
· 1 mention“It used to be like getting blood from a rock, for example, with blogging, running AdSense on your site. And I had a reasonably popular site that was making, you know, maybe $1,000 a month with like, you know, 300,000 visits to it, which is a lot.”
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How 1,917 businesses make money
Of businesses with mapped revenue sources, the share using each —
The Pathless Path’s highlighted.
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Recurring subscriptions55%
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Services & consulting29% ◀
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Physical products28% ◀
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One-time / lifetime deals24% ◀
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Affiliate / referral commissions16%
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Course / training sales13% ◀
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Add-ons & upsells10%
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Usage-based fees10%
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Sponsorships & partnerships9% ◀
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Advertising revenue9% ◀
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Marketplace commissions6%
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Licensing2%
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Donations & tips2%
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Setup / onboarding fees2%
